Coastal Pines Technical College (CPTC) is a community college in Waycross, Georgia, with six branches in other cities. It has a thirteen-county service delivery area (SDA), covering a total of 7,433 square miles, which is the largest SDA in the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG). Coastal Pines has seven instructional sites in the rural towns of Alma, Baxley, Brunswick, Hazlehurst, Jesup, Kingsland and Waycross in southeastern Georgia, nineteen adult education sites and dual enrollment opportunities with sixteen high schools. The school offers over 130 programs, associate's degree, and certificate or diploma programs in the areas of allied health, business and computer, personal services, and technical and industrial technology. Students can earn a degree, diploma or certificate in as little as eight weeks to two years.Coastal Pines Technical College offers eleven tuition-free programs through the HOPE Career Grant, as well as access to scholarships and grants through the CPTC Foundation. All remaining credit hours for the college are offered at only $89 per credit hour, making getting an education extremely affordable to the student. Coastal Pines Technical College offers programs and implements new programs that meet the demands of the work force in the service delivery area. With a 99% job placement overall, as well 94% job placement rate in the field of study, CPTC is meeting the work force demands.Coastal Pines Technical College was established on July 1, 2014, from the merger of Altamaha Technical College (est. 1989) and Okefenokee Technical College (est. 1965). The school is a unit of the Technical College System of Georgia, which includes 28 technical colleges. The school is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.[citation needed].The State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) selected Coastal Pines Technical College as the 2017 recipient of the Sonny Perdue Award for the TCSG Technical College of the Year. Coastal Pines had the highest enrollment growth at 22.1%, the highest graduation rate at 87.1%, the largest increase in High School Dual Enrollment, the Most Improvement in Operation Efficiency, and finally a Superb Licensure Pass rate (95%) for the State of Georgia..
Cet article examine les enjeux polémiques dissimulés derrière les postures d’historiens qu’adoptent les polémistes du théâtre. L’histoire du théâtre que construisent les polémistes du xviie siècle est celle d’un art à la fois ancestral et neuf, qui s’émancipe de ses origines archaïques. Face aux attaques contre la scène qui l’envisagent comme une pratique idolâtre depuis ses origines, les défenseurs répondent en arguant que la pratique contemporaine n’a plus rien à voir avec les spectacles antiques. L’historicité du théâtre apparaît comme une stratégie de riposte, face à un discours premier qui envisage une pratique théâtrale immuable.
The mechanical properties and microstructures of dissimilar arc stud weldments of AISI 316L/AISI 1020 and AISI 304/AISI 1020 were investigated. Welding currents of 400, 600 and 800A and welding times of 0.2, 0.25, 0.3, 0.35, 0.4 and 0.45 second were employed. Maximum torque strength of 77N m was registered with 600A and 0.25 second for 316L/AISI 1020 joints with failure occurred away from the fusion zone (FZ) within the stud shank. However, for AISI 304/AISI 1020 joints, the maximum torque strength was 68N m recorded with 600A and 0.35 second and the failure occurred at FZ. For both dissimilar joints, the presence of chromium carbides and equiaxed grain structures is the direct cause for the augmentation of hardness at the FZ. The microstructure of FZ was completely resolidified of the austenite phase.
Globally, access to quality education is being recognized by educational scholars as a significant process of poverty eradication. In developing countries including Tanzania, access to quality education is a national goal supposed to be achieved by Tanzania Development Vision 2025. However, the practice is being hindered by the use of manual systems in administering academic activities in secondary schools. The manual systems lead to loss of data integrity, work productivity of teachers, inefficiency and ineffective collection, and dissemination of educational information required to support education policymakers in planning, monitoring, and evaluation of quality educational activities. This study used structured interviews and questionnaires to collect data from educational stakeholders of the Arusha region to investigate a cost-effective digital solution required to improve the delivery of quality education for sustainable development. After data analysis, findings revealed that Tanzanian secondary schools required to use a centralized education management information system in administering schools’ academic activities. The study concluded by formulating a cost-effective digital framework that can enhance the accurate and timely collection and dissemination of quality educational information for supporting planning, monitoring, and evaluation of the academic activities. Due to the tremendous change of technology, this study recommended all schools to adapt to the use of digital tools rather than manual systems in administering schools’ academic activities.
OBJECTIVES:Evaluate the acceptability, ceiling and floor effects, reliability, and known-group validity of the Brazilian version of the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM) version 1.4 in patients with hypertension.METHODS:The sample consisted of 300 hypertensive patients undergoing treatment in an outpatient department. The acceptability was evaluated from the items not answered in the TSQM. The reliability of the TSQM was estimated through Cronbach's alpha. Known-group validity tested whether the TSQM discriminates satisfaction between different stages of hypertension, diagnoses of left ventricular hypertrophy, medication adherence, and occurrence of side effects.RESULTS:The TSQM had high acceptability (99% of participants answered all items). A substantial ceiling effect was found in the side effect (89%) and global satisfaction (29%) subscales. Reliability evaluated with Cronbach's alpha showed values >0.76 in all subscales. Known-group validity was supported with a statistically significant difference in patient satisfaction effectiveness between the hypertension groups and those without left ventricular hypertrophy. Regarding medication adherence, the TSQM was able to discriminate satisfaction in the side effect and global satisfaction subscales. A significantly higher satisfaction was found in all subscales of the TSQM in those patients without side effects.CONCLUSIONS:The TSQM is a reliable and valid questionnaire to be used in Brazilians with hypertension.
